Along with the somewhat blurry image, which shows the Huawei Ascend W1 with a blue back cover – as reported previously the phone is also expected to come in black, pink and white – a list of potential specs has also been leaked.

For starters we have a 4-inch WVGA display, with a 5-megapixel camera on the back and a VGA front-facing camera for video calling. Powering proceedings along will be a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB internal memory and a 2,000 mAh battery.

As you may have gathered from the specs, the Huawei Ascend W1 is unlikely to fall into the high-end category of Windows Phone 8 devices.

However, with a purported price tag of $310 (around £192), it could prove an affordable alternative to trying out Microsoft’s new operating system.